Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-04-16
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY, APRIL, Is. 1887.

hQSS 1OUke are DClAA
 their owner, NIT. Samuel Hughes
 A Guaymss telegram to San Francesca says the Ysqui chef Caleme has crossee the boundary line and IS now m All zona.
 Len Corbett has been out to the San Pedro. roughing 1t for short time, ana ns a resrlt ke IS not so handsome ID compleyion. but he can get away with 6 bi0ger dinner than Is usual for him.
 There was born, in this city, on Mon day. April 11th. to the wife of Jacob Harris. a daughter. Mir. Harris IS one of the hsppiest mortals in the world, bv reason of this event, tor all his other little ones are boys.
 The country to the north and west Is said to have been blessed with coplous rainfall during the past two days. De tween Florence and Casa Grande great deal of water covers the ground, while the rains in the PInRl mountains have heen very heavy.
 IL don't always pay 10 send away from home for job work. A bill amounting to SI7.5O. was presented to the board of Supervisors for lOO0,letter heads and lOOO envelopes printed in the East; last week this office did the same amount ot printing for $15.-Yuma Sentinel
 Mr, Hermann MorgenrOth IS just able to get around little on the streets after s very severe illness of over two months. Re is but a shadow of his former self, but be Is daily growing stronger.
 Rev. U. Gregory has gone by private conveyance 10 Gro Bl8nco, where be
 G-zIau "a rrrll then proceed to Altar and other points m Sonora, and will be absent for 8 cou- pie of weeks.
 Siewert is making the Fashion base meut daisy restaurant, and it will be the handsomest ss well as the best eat ing house ID the Territory. He IS en terprising, and therefore successful, and his enlarged premises Is demanded by the rapid increase of his patronage.
 News reached us this week of tht death of MT F. l.. Phillips at his home in Kentucky. He WAS one of the own CTS of the Represits cattle ranch ID thii county, and- left here for visit to hiI home in the Blue Grass State m th' early part of last winter.-Enterprise.
 The Star notes the mysterious dis hppEhA EA4lIC OA O u-kO '" N-A7 CS+N~A the Quijotoas, and expresses the belle that he has committed suicide or els' has wandered away during a mental ab erration and perished through exposure He has not been heard from for severa months,
 Mir. J. A. Linder's mule thst wal stolen when tied st his wagon Rt tht HarshRw ranch, Davidson's canon or the night or April 9th, was recovered few days ago near Crittenden. Ih' thief had ridden it and then turned Il loose perhaps for a fresh animal, and I then went hOmeward.
 It is reported that Olive camp ship ped 140 tons of ore last month t smelters outside the territory. Reduc ton works in thIs cliy would receive al this high grade ore in addition 10 a vas quantity of lower grade that will no justify shipment. The supply iron Olive camp alone would keep a smelte in this city busy day and night.
 Men have been arrested about thu OuijotoRe, the Mammoth, and othe camps, for supplying wood to the sever al mills, cut off government land. Spe cial agents have been around spottlng the poor Wretches who are trying to get living by supplying wood. for the lack of which the mills !cOuld not be kept running.
 Mir. Samuel Hughes and others have purchased considerable land and watel bitches north of the city, on the line o the intended system of irrigsting canals and will have DO conflicting interests ai obstacles to its construction and main- tenance. A large and permanent water supply will be furnished from near the city and conveyed 10 the lands 10 tho north.
 The foundation of the court house hai settled ID some places and 1t ls found necessary to repair a dangerous cracl in the walls on the north side of Is west end. The arch of the window II the assessor's office Is being replaced b! new one. If the foundation don't le ID oa this business the court house will soon be entitled to Pioneer honori Bs an old settler.
 Now that MT. Jacob Harris httl, daughter mas arrived, the natural SC qrclce Is 6 biz stock of new milllner. goods which are expected tomorrow Ths invoice includes all sorts of new anC reasonable goods in the millinery line and If the public wishes to take sdvant age of Mr. Harris present happy stat, of disposition, they can get goods el most at their own figures.
 The owners of the Antelope vslley ditch on the GIla have incorporated un der the name of the Antelope Cana Company. The capital stock is $90, ,OOO divided into 5000 ishRres. The inten- tion is to begin at once the construction of the canal which will be 20 feet wide on the bOttom-a capacity sufficient e carry water for irrigsting the entire val ley. With the completion of the canal new era will dawn upon that very pro- missing section of country.-Yuma Sen tinel.
 Old Conguean, better known as "Coou Can" the aged chief of the Papagos out ID the Quiiotoas is no more. He dIed in the honorable way beft.ing a chief who had reigned for nearly half a cen tury, beloved by all his tribe and mourn. ed by several afectionste wives. He WAS a smart old coon and was full of legendary lore from the time the gres; rocks of the OuiiOtoss were but mere pebbles His mourning kinsmen are about to elect a new chief and the cam psign among them IS growing red hot.
 The board of supervisors have a diff cult quality of business before them owing to the many changes made Tn the laws and the uncertainty concerning the character of the changes. The fund ing question will probably be sstisfsc- torily adjusted in few days. but there is vast amount of other pubic mat ters upon which the new laws are be neved to bear, that must be treated with considerable caution. The board is probably the busiest trio of gentle men 10 be found in the county to-day and they begin to betrsy evidences oi the strain snd care of their heavy re- responsibilities.
 The assessor is making his annual tour among the people in search of their worldly wealth for basis of taxation Under the new law the assessor does not assess the railroad tracks, right of way and rolling stock. This is done by the Terrltona. Board of Equalization, and they direct the respective county Boards of Supervisors to cause the Rs- sessor to assess them accord ing to the rate they arbitrarily fiI upon. Only the railroad buildings and i'm movements within the county are the fiasfa oF.tha Ax- a1c.uaarfs